Palanga
Palanga is a seaside resort in the Samogitia region of Lithuania. It includes a string of smaller resorts from the edge of Klaipėda city to the border with Latvia and the regional airport; in 2023 it had a population of 18,132.- Type: Town with 15,700 residents
- Description: resort town in Lithuania
- Also known as: “Palangos” and “Polanga”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Muzeum of amber and Palanga Pier.
Muzeum of amber
Museum
The Palanga Amber Museum, near the Baltic Sea in Palanga, Lithuania, is a branch of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art. It is housed in the restored 19th-century Tiškevičiai Palace and is surrounded by the Palanga Botanical Garden.
Palanga Pier
Scenic viewpoint
Palanga Pier is a wooden pier to the Baltic Sea located in Palanga, the most popular and biggest summer resort in Lithuania.
Tiškevičiai Palace, Palanga
The Tiškevičiai Palace is a Neo-Renaissance style building in Palanga, Lithuania, built for the Tyszkiewicz family. The construction was started in 1893 and finished in 1897.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vanagupė and Kunigiškiai.
Palanga
- Categories: resort town, seaside resort, and locality
- Location: Klaipėda County, Samogitia, Lithuania, Baltic states, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.923° or 55° 55′ 23″ north
Longitude
21.0683° or 21° 4′ 6″ east
Population
15,700
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
IATA airport code
PLQ
United Nations Location Code
LT PLQ
Open location code
9G73W3F9+58
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
Discover Palanga from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Palanga” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Palanga”
- Albanian: “Palanga”
- Arabic: “بالانغا (لتوانيا)”
- Arabic: “بالانغا”
- Armenian: “Պալանգա”
- Azerbaijani: “Palanqa”
- Azerbaijani: “Pаlаnqа”
- Belarusian: “Паланга”
- Bulgarian: “Паланга”
- Catalan: “Palanga”
- Cebuano: “Palanga”
- Central Kurdish: “پاڵانگا”
- Chinese: “Palanga”
- Chinese: “帕兰加”
- Cornish: “Palanga”
- Croatian: “Palanga”
- Czech: “Palanga”
- Danish: “Palanga bykommune”
- Danish: “Palanga”
- Dimli (individual language): “Palanga”
- Dutch: “Palanga”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بالانجا”
- Esperanto: “Palanga”
- Estonian: “Palanga”
- Finnish: “Palanga”
- French: “Municipalité de Palanga-ville”
- French: “Palanga”
- French: “Polangen”
- Georgian: “პალანგა”
- German: “Palanga”
- German: “Polangen”
- Greek: “Παλανγκά”
- Greek: “Παλάνγκα”
- Hebrew: “פלאנגה”
- Hungarian: “Palanga”
- Indonesian: “Palanga, Lituania”
- Indonesian: “Palanga”
- Italian: “Palanga”
- Japanese: “パランガ”
- Kalaallisut: “Palanga”
- Kashubian: “Palanga”
- Korean: “팔랑가”
- Kurdish: “Palanga”
- Latgalian: “Palanga”
- Latvian: “Palanga”
- Latvian: “Palangas pilsētas pašvaldība”
- Latvian: “Polaga”
- Latvian: “Połąga”
- Lithuanian: “Palanga”
- Macedonian: “Паланга”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Palanga”
- Moksha: “Паланга”
- Northern Frisian: “Palanga”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Palanga bykommune”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Palanga”
- Norwegian: “Palanga bykommune”
- Norwegian: “Palanga”
- Ossetian: “Палангæ”
- Persian: “پالانگا”
- Piemontese: “Palanga”
- Polish: “Palanga”
- Polish: “Połąga”
- Portuguese: “Palanga”
- Pushto: “پالانګا”
- Romanian: “Palanga”
- Russian: “Паланга”
- Russian: “Паланген”
- Russian: “Пеланген”
- Russian: “Поланген”
- Russian: “Полонга”
- Samogitian: “Palanga”
- Samogitian: “Palanguos savėvaldībė”
- Samogitian: “Palonga”
- Scots: “Palanga”
- Serbian: “Паланга”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Palanga”
- Silesian: “Palanga”
- Slovak: “Palanga”
- Slovenian: “Palanga”
- Spanish: “Palanga”
- Swahili: “Palanga”
- Swedish: “Palanga”
- Tatar: “Паланга”
- Turkish: “Palanga (kent)”
- Turkish: “Palanga”
- Ukrainian: “Паланга”
- Ukrainian: “Паланґа”
- Upper Sorbian: “Palanga”
- Urdu: “پالانگا”
- Uzbek: “Palanga”
- Vietnamese: “Palanga”
- Volapük: “Palanga”
- Wu Chinese: “帕兰加”
- “Palanga”
- “Palonga”
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